Poetry for the BFRLC - Enjoy if you can

Haiku:
Hairy wanderer
Now, a mist falls upon you.
Indian Buffet?

Limerick:
There exists a creature called Yeti
Although know one has really met he.
Bigfoot researchers will go
For burritos or Pho
And know our work is not petty.

Beat:
I heard the ground stomping with ancestry,
Disbelief, oppression, confusion
Chase, fear, misunderstanding as I looked
Into his eyes knowing that he and I existed in a
Cosmic intertwining that may one day be explained but
Not in the streets or in the factories
Or in the churches, the classrooms, the government
But maybe when we meet all who ever was or ever will be
Souls here today, there yesterday, gone tomorrow but we
Still live on
Om Nama Shivaya we chant Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeren.
Sasquatch. Bigfoot. Yeti. Abominable Snowman.
At long last lunch has come.

BF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

This has got to be the funniest book in the world. BF fan or not, it is simply too funny. Graham Roumieu illustrator and author really finds a voice so compelling and consistant you begin to forget Bigfoot is a undiscovered hominid, instead believing him to be an everyday man, a 600-800lb hairy everyday man who hates Chewbacca.

Heres a few excerpts. This first one is titled

Stop, Smell Rose
Where You go, Man on Road?
Why You Run, When me want talk?
You manners bad, so me learn you good
Tear off legs
So no more run. :)

Another Excerpt...

"Me used to believe in good, now no more. World go sh**...just like Bigfoot screenwriting career"

Roumieu, whose illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Progressive, reveals the hairy hominids's brave struggles with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, and philosophical quandaries ("Me once believe in good. Now, no. World go shit, like Bigfoot screenwriting career."). In a full-color graphic novel, Roumieu offers a portrait of the artist as a young ape that will leave the reader howling with laughter.

Review:

"Brilliantly funny." San Francisco Chronicle

If you decide to get the book, get it at Powell's the best dern bookstore in the world.

NOT YOUR TYPICAL BF MOVIE

This movie is making the rounds at indie film festival SxSW. It seems to be gaining a buzz according to a review by Eric Davis of Cinematical.

Standing in the picture above is Dallas Gilbert and Wayne Burton two real-life Bigfoot researchers starring as themselves in a semi-fictional story providing a look into the trials and triumphs of life in the Apalacian foot hiils. Through these two amateur BF researchers from southern Ohio, we see how the power of a dream can define a friendship and provide hope and a meaning that transcends the harsh realities of life in a dying steel town.

After several failed attempts to attract national attention and convince the world Bigfoot exist, Dallas catches a lucky break. He pursuades a high-profile Bigfoot researcher to stop in Portsmouth and see check out the research accumulated by Dallas and Wayne. As the movie accelerates ever closer towards the realization of their mutual dream, we are reminded how fragile this shared hope truly is.

Besides being a movie that does not exploit Bigfoot as a fearful monster, dangerous creature, or idiot in a suit. It really seems to tap into the culture of the BF community, this movie originally was to be a documentry with the two men escorting a film crew to 2005 Chattahoochee BF Conference in Tennesee. During post-production the idea for the fictional story evolved in order to reveal the vitality of the hope these two men shared, despite their failure to attain their goal.

I think Captain Kirk said it best while confirming and defending humans to Spock, "Sometimes for us humans, wanting is better than having."

Hence a perfect time to reflect on the BFR Lunch Clubber's motto "in pursuit of discovery". We Salute you Dallas and Wayne, as a matter of fact co-founder Goldteeth/PDXBigfoot is an OHIO Native.